Calendar for September 5th, 2013

Rosh Hashanah

This Day of Judgment (also called Day of Memorial) marks the beginning of the Jewish New Year and the beginning of the Ten Days of Penitence (or Repentance), which end on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Rosh Hashanah is a celebration of the creation of the world in the Jewish tradition.

The shofar, traditionally made of ram's horn, is blown 100 times on Rosh Hashanah. Jews who observe Rosh Hashanah make time for personal introspection and prayer, as well as visiting graves.

Every Year

Be Late for Something Day (United States)

1180s

Born 1187: Louis VIII of France

1560s

Born 1568: Tommaso Campanella (philosopher)

1660s

1666: Great Fire of London ended

1690s

1698: Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards

1730s

Born 1735: Johann Christian Bach (composer)

1770s

1774: First Continental Congress opened, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1776: First standardized naval uniforms adopted for U.S.

1840s

Born 1847: Jesse James (outlaw)

1870s

Born 1875: Napoleon "Nap" Lajoie (baseball player)

1880s

1882: The Central Labor Union in New York organized the first Labor Day parade

1900s

1905: A treaty of peace signed in Portsmouth, NH, ending the Russo-Japanese war

1910s

1918: USS Mount Vernon torpedoed by German submarine off France

1920s

Born 1929: Bob Newhart (actor)

1940s

Born 1940: Raquel Welch (actress)

Born 1946: Freddie Mercury (singer)

1950s

1958: Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago published in the U.S.

1960s

1960: Cassius Clay won an Olympic gold medal for boxing

Born 1969: Dweezil Zappa (musician)

1970s

1975: Lynette Fromme attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford